Razer’s Ironclad is a unibody aluminum mousepad

Looking for the perfect mousepad to use with your MacBook Pro? Well look no further, Razer now offers up an aluminum mousepad that features what the company calls unibody construction, just like on your Mac. Unfortunately it’s $60.

Like the rest of Razer’s products, the Ironclad is built for gamers who have stringent demands for their gear. The pad has a sandblasted surface that works with both high-sensitivity and low-sensitivity players, each of whom usually prefer different mousing surfaces (leading to the design of Razer’s older, dual-sided eXactmat and then the Vespula). At about 12.6 x 10.6-inches the pad is large enough for just about anyone.

Features (from Razer’s release):

Ultra-smooth sandblasted surface for the best mouse glide comfort and control

It sounds cool, but it’s not a very original concept–back in 2005 I reviewed another all-aluminum mousepad, the Banshee Pad. I’m also a bit unsure as to what makes this unibody–it seems to be a single sheet of aluminum. This, I suppose, is the most basic form of unibody design, but it does seem to be a stretch to call it that (or is anything made of one piece of aluminum called unibody nowadays? Is aluminum foil unibody?).